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Where I may have been rambling, all these years, in the persuasion I was in it already, I have by no means any clear notion!

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

In the first place, they could not; for I should, all the early part of my life, have been rambling and roving about as most bachelors are.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William

For more than a month I have been rambling about the country, visiting my old battlefields, passing a few days in New Orleans, a week in San Antonio, and so forth.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

Sir, For some months past I have been rambling over the country, but I am now confined with some lingering complaints, originating, as I take it, in the stomach.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Many men couldn’t have guessed, and then we should have been rambling at cross purposes for the next hour or so without getting any further.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various